{"title":"Introduction: V. F. Pereverzev, 1882-1968","authors":"H. G. Scott","doi":"10.2753/RSL1061-19752202036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/RSL1061-19752202036","url":null,"abstract":"Valer'ian Fedorovich Pereverzev founded the Pereverzev School of Marxist poetics in the 1920s, one of the most turbulent periods in Russian letters. The decade immediately following the 1917 Revolution was a period of enormous social, political, and cultural upheaval. The breakdown of the old regime affected all areas of human endeavor as attempts were made to redefine and reevaluate traditional concepts and values in the new Marxist-Leninist society. In the sphere of literary criticism and theory an enormous variety of critical theories and styles based on them grew out of the search for new forms and possibilities in art. Experimentation and free competition among the many literary groups were encouraged by the Party's moderate position in the early and midtwenties. Party neutrality made it possible for both Marxist and non-Marxist critics to engage in serious literary work on poetics in an effort to solve complex problems in the theory of art.","PeriodicalId":173745,"journal":{"name":"Soviet Studies in Literature","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126104610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Essential Premises in Marxist Literary Scholarship","authors":"V. F. Pereverzev","doi":"10.2753/RSL1061-197522020354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/RSL1061-197522020354","url":null,"abstract":"Any method is ultimately based on a specific conception of the subject under investigation. Marxism views literary scholarship as a function of social life which is subject in terms of both its existence and its development on social necessity. This has been and continues to be the basis for referring to the Marxist method as a sociological method. This is true to a certain extent. Since the Marxist method views literature as a social phenomenon, it must be considered to be one of the sociological methods. But in point of fact, the term \"sociological method\" is an extremely vague designation that can lead to methodological confusion, a term that we may even need to discard altogether. In essence, there really is no such thing as a sociological method, nor can there be, since there are as many sociological methods as there are sociologies. We know that there are idealistic systems of sociology, and they certainly cannot serve as the basis for the sociological method known as Marxist sociology. We could nam...","PeriodicalId":173745,"journal":{"name":"Soviet Studies in Literature","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126619820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concerning a Monistic Conception of Goncharov's Art","authors":"V. F. Pereverzev","doi":"10.2753/RSL1061-197522020390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/RSL1061-197522020390","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most essential tasks in the scholarly analysis of a writer's artistic corpus consists in clarifying the links among his images and their mutual interdependence, the inner logic of their concatenation. Only by clarifying such links can we reach an understanding of the essence of a writer's art and only thus can we achieve a monistic view of the writer and reveal the fundamental unity in the many and varied images in his works.","PeriodicalId":173745,"journal":{"name":"Soviet Studies in Literature","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125244445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Formalists' \"Sociological Method\"","authors":"V. F. Pereverzev","doi":"10.2753/RSL1061-1975220203127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/RSL1061-1975220203127","url":null,"abstract":"I have had occasion to speak both orally and in writing about the untenable nature of the term \"sociological method.\" \"In essence,\" I wrote in my article \"Essential Premises of Marxist Literary Scholarship\" [Neobkhodimye predposylki marksistskogo literaturovedeniia],1 \"there is no such thing as a sociological method, nor can there be, since there are as many sociological methods as there are sociologies. We know that there are idealistic systems of sociology, and they certain cannot serve as the basis of the sociological method known as Marxist sociology. The Marxist method should be known not as a sociological method but rather as a method of historical materialism. The Marxist method is the method of historical materialism and not at all that of sociology in general.\"","PeriodicalId":173745,"journal":{"name":"Soviet Studies in Literature","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126152956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Bibliography of the Works of V. F. Pereverzev, 1912-1982","authors":"H. G. Scott","doi":"10.2753/RSL1061-1975220203177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/RSL1061-1975220203177","url":null,"abstract":"1. Tvorchestvo Dostoevskogo. Kriticheskii ocherk [Dostoevsky's Works. A Critical Study]. With a preface by P. N. Sakulin. Moscow: Sovremennye problemy, 1912. xvi, 367 pp. 2nd and 3rd eds., Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1922 and 1928. 253 pp. Reprinted in Gogol'. Dostoevskii. Issledovaniia. By V. F. Pereverzev, pp. 187-362. Moscow: \"Sovetskii pisatel',\" 1982 [hereafter, Issledovaniia, 1982].","PeriodicalId":173745,"journal":{"name":"Soviet Studies in Literature","volume":"2012 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114625649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Problems of Marxist Literary Scholarship","authors":"V. F. Pereverzev","doi":"10.2753/RSL1061-1975220203150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/RSL1061-1975220203150","url":null,"abstract":"Several articles criticizing my scholarly views have been published in the journal On Literary Guard [Na literaturnom postu]. Over a short period of time, three authors have published articles in that journal, all of whom question the validity of my position to a greater or lesser degree.","PeriodicalId":173745,"journal":{"name":"Soviet Studies in Literature","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132510268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical Premises of Pisarev's Criticism","authors":"V. F. Pereverzev","doi":"10.2753/RSL1061-197522020336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/RSL1061-197522020336","url":null,"abstract":"A proper understanding of Pisarev's critical position depends on a proper understanding of his view of aesthetics. His critical method is defined by his aesthetic outlook. Anyone who does not understand the logic of his aesthetic outlook will have nothing sensible to say about Pisarev as a critic. Pisarev's critical method is usually known as a \"publicistic\" method, by which is meant that the literary fact is transformed in his works from an object of investigation into an excuse for social propaganda. This is true only to a certain extent, and in any case does not grasp what is most essential for Pisarev's critical methodology. Considering Pisarev's inclination toward publicistics as the central element in his criticism distorts the true meaning and actual methodological position of his work.","PeriodicalId":173745,"journal":{"name":"Soviet Studies in Literature","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124805924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Selected Bibliography of Works about V. F. Pereverzev","authors":"H. G. Scott, J. L. Hellie","doi":"10.2753/RSL1061-1975220203188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/RSL1061-1975220203188","url":null,"abstract":"1. Bespalov I. M. Problemy literaturnoi kritiki [Problems of Literary Criticism]. Moscow, 1930.","PeriodicalId":173745,"journal":{"name":"Soviet Studies in Literature","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127430947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"V. V. Vinogradov and the Theory of Literary Language in the First Third of the Twentieth Century","authors":"A. Chudakov","doi":"10.2753/RSL1061-197521030491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/RSL1061-197521030491","url":null,"abstract":"1. The years 1928 and 1929 were a period of stocktaking and assessment of what had been Soviet poetics' stormiest decade. One after another, books appeared by all its foremost theoreticians of literature—Viktor Zhirmunskii's Problems of the Theory of Literature [Voprosy teorii literatury] in 1928, Iurii Tynianov's Archaists and Innovators [Arkhaisty i novatory] in 1929, and Boris Tomashevskii's On Verse [O stikhe], also in 1929. Viktor Shklovskii had been the first to look back at the recent past with his Theory of Prose [Teoriia prozy], published in 1925; it appeared again in a second edition in 1929, joining the general chorus. Tomashevskii's Theory of Literature. Poetics [Teoriia literatury. Poetika], which went through six editions between 1925 and 1931, also summarized the achievements of the preceding decade. Its author wanted the book to be \"simply Aristotle's old theory of literature,\" but Boris Eikhenbaum later characterized it as \"an attempt at uniting all theoretical problems\" in \"a book of inv...","PeriodicalId":173745,"journal":{"name":"Soviet Studies in Literature","volume":"44 13","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113985623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Prehistory of Soviet Works on Structural Poetics","authors":"A. K. Zholkovskiĭ, Iu. K. Shcheglov","doi":"10.2753/RSL1061-197521030468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/RSL1061-197521030468","url":null,"abstract":"I. Introduction: In recent years, many scholars have been examining questions of the modeling of various aspects of human intellectual activity. Among other things, they have been discussing the possibility of the artificial reproduction of psychic and mental functions which are still far from having been precisely described. Elucidating the structure of humanistic disciplines such as linguistics, musicology, psychology, sociology, and so forth represents an interesting task with important possibilities for the future. Unfortunately, while many people consider even a problem as intricate as the creation of highly complex living beings to have been basically solved, it is still widely believed that art and literature cannot be formalized and that in general they are somehow inherently different from everything else.","PeriodicalId":173745,"journal":{"name":"Soviet Studies in Literature","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127603781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}